International Women’s Day | Accelerate Action
Burke’s had the honor of hosting Cynt Marshall at our annual International Women’s Day Assembly.
A dynamic force in business over a 36-year career at AT&T and almost seven years as the CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, Ms. Marshall embraced this year's IWD theme, "Accelerate Action," in her inspiring speech.
Sharing the many challenges she has overcome in life, she expressed gratitude for her mother, educators in her life, and the colleagues and friends she found along her journey.
She closed out her speech by having the students take an action pledge and gifted each student a tiara with the message, "I want you to know, for the rest of your life, that you are the queen of the castle…I think girls and women can do anything.”
“I am inspired by all of you. I am inspired when I go out and see young people doing amazing things I am inspired to know that our world is going to be ok.”
Cynt Marshall became the first African-American chair of the North Carolina State Chamber of Commerce and has received several honors and awards, including the 2024 Junior Achievement Dallas Business Hall of Fame Laureate award and the 2022 Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Hope for Humanity award. In 2021, Forbes named Cynt one of 15 of the world’s most inspiring female leaders.
Cynt Marshall joins a long line of esteemed Burke’s International Women's Day guests that have included Commander Rebecca Calder, USNR, (Ret.), the athlete and conservationist Kim Chambers, former Vice President Kamala Harris, Judge Abinanti, a Yurok Chief Judge, former Mayor London Breed, and Audrey Cooper, former Executive Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
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